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The News Stand: 12/06/2026

The week has ticked over, so it’s time to cover all the latest in the world of Ultramodern Wargaming. New releases from Spectre, previews from Combat Octopus and many others, and even a sign of life from Haywire. Read on for more!

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The Week In ChargeBlog: 21/07/2024

22/07/2024

This week was the final one (hopefully) spent rebuilding the various parts of my network infrastructure in my house. Media serving boxes, the backup machine, swapping drives, recovering data, replacing RAM… and all I wanted to do was just sit down, do some hobbies and paint some minis. Alas, I didn’t escape the technical work on the hobby side either. My Elgoo Saturn has been a bit of a needy mare at the moment – obviously after being bought in 2021, it’s decided it’s feeling a bit old. So, after replacing the lamp unit back in May, one of the…
ChargeReal Lore Drop: Task Force Volk and The Samory

19/07/2024

The ChargeReal Research team has been in the depths this month on the Zanvult Insurrection. However, as part of their work looking at Mercenaries in the world of the ChargeReal (the full post is available for the ChargeReal Researchers tier) they have managed to uncover some additional information on two of the mercenary groups that exist in the setting. Further details are available in the ChargeReal Research Report: Mercenaries Task Force Volk, Libertalia Recruited from former soldiers and SOF operators, Task Force Volk is an example of the mercenary groups that have thrived on Libertalia. Although not directly under the…
The News Stand: 15/07/2024

15/07/2024

Hey, remember how last week’s edition was really short? Well it turns out everyone was just holding stuff back to pack this week’s edition to the brim. We’ve got updates across the board, from Spectre to White Dragon Miniatures to Combat Octopus and more! As always, thanks to the News Fans and other patrons over on the ChargeBlog patreon for buying my time to make this wrap-up each week. If you like these roundups and find them useful, why not chip in on the Patreon? Spectre Miniatures Shows Off Their Resin And Deploys Agents To The STL Releases Spectre Miniatures…
The Week In ChargeBlog: 14/07/2024

15/07/2024

Editor note – there are currently 9 draft SITREP posts sat on the blog. The idea behind SITREPs was originally to write them as fast as possible and get them out, keeping the blog humming along and mapping my own hobby work to posts. The problem is that I take way too long to write anything of reasonable length and then suddenly the week is over, there is another edition of The News Stand and the non-news content is 0 despite actually getting on with a pile of things in the background. At the same time, the once-a-month project update…
The News Stand: 08/07/2024

08/07/2024

A quieter one this week (I assume last week’s US holiday and UK general election/England football wins are distracting everyone) but good news – there are still enough updates to deliver a News Stand and fill the top image (always the most important part!) Read on for details from Spectre, BobMack3d, Combat Octopus and Modern Miniatures. As always, thanks to the News Fans and other patrons over on the ChargeBlog patreon for buying my time to make this wrap-up each week. If you like these roundups and find them useful, why not chip in on the Patreon? Spectre Miniatures Releases…
SITREP: Remastering The Criminal Heavies

07/07/2024

Last week Spectre released three sets of figures that seemed familiar but different. Taking the original 3D sculpts of the Aftermath Killteam, the Agents QRF and the Criminal Heavies and polishing them up after several years of improvements and planning (as well as changing from metal production to resin allowing for some adjustment). I never picked up the Aftermath Killteam nor the Agents QRF as they landed when I was too busy looking at the various 3D-printed alternatives. But the Criminal Heavies on the other hand was a set that was right up my street. I got my set back…
Last Chance for Gunslinger Print-On-Demand from Desk-Ops

03/07/2024

All good things must come to an end sadly. In this case, the 31st of July will see the end of the distribution of Print-On-Demand Gunslinger 2030 models by friend of the site Dan and his store Desk-Ops, as the agreement expires and Flytrap Factory take over production directly. However, as one final celebration of the project and the figures Anton at Flytrap Factory sculpted, Desk-Ops is going to be selling all of the Gunslinger 2030 packs at 20% off. With the print-on-demand model, Desk-Ops can provide all the packs in the range in a wide variety of scales (from…
The News Stand: 01/07/2024

01/07/2024

It’s the start of a new month and we have a pile of new releases from Spectre, plenty of final previews from the host of Patreons and more! Hell, we even have some cool things coming from my favourite 6mm sculptor, so read on for more! As always, thanks to the News Fans and other patrons over on the ChargeBlog patreon for buying my time to make this wrap-up each week. If you like these roundups and find them useful, why not chip in on the Patreon? Spectre Miniatures Releases Remastered Infantry Heavy Firepower and Heavy Armour I knew Spectre…